Nason, Thomas 1845-1922

NASON

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/3/2022 at 11:58:35

EIGHT SONS AS PALLBEARERS

WILL CARRY BODY OF FATHER TO GRAVE TODAY

Mayor Short Will Speak at the Services for Thomas Nason at Westcott’s Chapel This Afternoon-Came Here in 1873

The funeral services of Thomas Nason, pioneer farmer of Plymouth county, father of 12 children, and for many years president of the school board of his township, who died of cancer last Sunday, at Savannah, Mo. Will be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon at Westcott’s chapel.

The descendent is survived by his widow and nine grown children—eight sons and one daughter.

At the request of these children, Mayor Wallace M. Short will speak a few words at the chapel before the body is taken to Logan Park cemetery for interment.

The eight sons will be pallbearers. The names of these sons, in the line of seniority, are as follows: Albert, Edward, George, Harry, Walter, William, Joseph and John. The name of the daughter is Annie.

Mr. Nason was born March 4, 1845, at Chipping-Norton. Oxfordshire, Eng. His father was a dyer in a woolen mill, and the son followed in the footsteps of the father. Thomas, at the age of 19, married Miss Maria Insall the daughter of a neighbor in the same county. Of the 12 children which were born to this union, two died in infancy and one died at the age of 16. All the others survive.

The first five of the children were born in England; the rest near Sioux City.

Mr. Nason first arrived in Sioux City in 1873. He located near Jefferson, S. D. In 1879 he moved across the state line into Iowa and settled on a farm in the Broken Kettle valley near Westfield, 17 miles north of Sioux City. In the course of time his sons Acquired farms adjoining the old home place and this locality has long been known as the “Nason settlement”. The father was possessor of a judicial turn of mind and his judgments were greatly respected in the community in which he lived for almost half a century.

Sioux City Journal
Wednesday, February 15, 1922
Sioux City, Iowa